Weekend with No Kids

My kids had a four day weekend from school this week.  Friday was a teacher in service day and Monday is Martin Luther King Holiday.  Since they were out of school and hadn’t yet got the chance to spend some Holiday time with their grandma who lives an hour away, they went for the weekend.  She met me half way on Friday to pick them up and they don’t return until Monday morning.  They were excited because they get the chance to go ride horses and open their Christmas presents from Meemaw.  However that gave me three days and two nights kidless, Noah comes home tonight (Sunday).

I bet you are thinking, a whole weekend with a free sitter for the kids? Dang, the hubs and I would be out dating and living up life.  Well I’m single.  Single, you say? Then I’d be painting the town red and reminding myself what the days without children were like.  Well all my friends had kids or were busy.  Pretty lame, right?

My weekend summed up.  Friday night I stayed home, alone, and caught up on my Days of Our Lives soap opera that I had recorded via DVR for a week.  That’s right, a full 5 hours of episodes in one night plus a TV dinner.  I felt like a real winner.  But it was relaxing.

Saturday I was able to have some adult interaction at my good friend, Chrystal’s, house party that included a Cookie Lee jewelry show.  She was hosting an introduction show to help earn a free kit in order to become a consultant.  So of course I had to help her out and spend a little money I didn’t have on a new beautiful necklace.  Just had to.  My old friend, Alysa, went to the party as well and I was able to convince her to at least go out to dinner with me afterward.  We met up with my sister, Babette, for a quick bite to eat at Chili’s which ended up being the worst experience at a restaurant EVER.  I’ll blog more about that soon, I’m sure.  Then Alysa and I headed over to a small sports bar to grab a drink and chat for about an hour just to go home smelling like smoke so bad you’d swear someone was puffing in my vehicle.  Yuck.

So anyways after being home before 11 PM on a Saturday night and now here I am on Sunday writing blog posts and catching up in the social media world… I can’t say the whole weekend was a dud.  I did relax some, catch up with old friends and visit my sister.  However for some reason I sure feel old, boring and lame to not have excitement during a kid free weekend.  I mean if it was going to just be a relaxing weekend then I at least should have went somewhere away from the house, right?

Maybe I should, as the British say, join an introduction agency.  At least I could possibly have scored a date for the weekend.  A nice night out on the town or quiet dinner would have been great.  When I was in London back in November I saw some signs advertising introduction agencies, in other words dating services or dating sites as we call them in the US.  I enjoy going out on dates but I just don’t want a relationship right now.  I could use some more adult interaction but gosh it seems every time I get on a dating site I either meet men who want to get married tomorrow when we aren’t even completely compatible or men who just want one thing and when I say I want adult interaction I mean DINNER at least.  But with all seriousness after spending much alone time this weekend I do think I would enjoy going out on dates but I’m just going to have to be very clear in my profile that something serious right now is not in the cards.  I like to visit new places, go out and have fun but this year I am focusing on me, you know… the new year the new me.  I am so busy with my life, my blog, my future career, my kids… gosh doesn’t seem like much time to fit in, my man.  Does that sound bad?  Right now I’m not sure where my career will take me and not even sure which town I plan to live in next year.  Hard to factor in another person.  Just sayin’…..

Full Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, but the story is based on my own feelings and was written 100% by me.